The Poets Weave

Mary Dezember reads her poems " Wild Conviction Epigraph: Poem 1" and "Poetry within the story: Poems 2-4" from her novel, Wild Conviction . Mary is an award-winning author of stories and poetry as portals to possibilities. While earning her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University, she directed the Runcible Spoon Poetry Series. Professor Emeritus of English at New Mexico Tech, Mary...

Writer Alyse Knorr reads from her book Wolf Tours , a surrealist novel-in-verse: “Day One,” “Wolf Tours Rules,” “Hunting Lesson,” and “Gratuity Not Included.” Alyse is the author of six poetry collections and two video game history books. Her lyrics have been performed at Carnegie Hall and her poetry is permanently installed on a wall of the New York City Public Library's East Harlem branch. She s...

Antonia Matthew grew up in England during World War II and has lived in Bloomington, Indiana since 1968. She has been a member of the writing group "Five Women Poets" since 1974, which has published three chapbooks and one CD. She has published a chapbook, Journey , and written a play, Antonia’s Home Front , a transatlantic audio theater co-production of Political Art, London and the Writers Guild...

Antonia Matthew grew up in England during World War II and has lived in Bloomington, Indiana since 1968. She has been a member of the writing group "Five Women Poets" since 1974, which has published three chapbooks and one CD.  She has published a chapbook, Journey , and written a play, Antonia’s Home Front , a transatlantic audio theater co-production of Political Art, London and the Writers Guil...

Antonia Matthew grew up in England during World War II and has lived in Bloomington, Indiana since 1968. She has been a member of the writing group "Five Women Poets" since 1974, which has published three chapbooks and one CD.  She has published a chapbook, Journey , and written a play, Antonia’s Home Front , a transatlantic audio theater co-production of Political Art, London and the Writers Guil...

Angela Lim is a poet, educator, and editor currently living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is pursuing an MFA in poetry at Indiana University. In addition to writing poems, Angela has written dozens of juvenile nonfiction books. Angela reads "Without Compass," "COMPULSORY," "I find myself jealous of ghosts" and "Tell the Space Enthusiast 'No, Thank You'." 

Allie Rigby has roots in the chaparral and deserts of California. She is the author of Moonscape for a Child, published by Bored Wolves in 2024, and she’s a recipient of a Fulbright grant to Romania. Her writing explores health, climate change, ecology, and community, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020. Allie reads "Press Record Now," "Frog Skin," "Self-Portrait as Orchid," and "B...

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” --Socrates  Colleen Wells read her poems “A Party of Five Becomes Two,” “Heartblast,” “Love It or List It,” “Snow Day,” and “March Madness.” Colleen believes writing is a healing force and helps others feel empowered to share their stories. Her works include a memoir, Dinner with Doppelgangers –...

Mary Dezember is an award-winning author of stories and poetry as portals to possibilities. While earning her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University, she directed the Runcible Spoon Poetry Series. Professor Emeritus of English at New Mexico Tech, Mary was awarded a writer’s residency at the Historic Santa Fe Foundation in 2025. Mary reads her poems " This Isn’t Your Dream" and "200...

" Less than anything cannot satisfy man.” – William Blake Alyse Knorr is the author of six poetry collections and two video game history books. Her lyrics have been performed at Carnegie Hall and her poetry is permanently installed on a wall of the New York City Public Library's East Harlem branch. She serves as an associate professor of English at Regis University. Alyse reads her poems “Scattere...

Poet Daniel Lassell reads “Llama,” “Ritter Park Cabin,” “Frame [Like a resurrected body],” “Downward Rooms,” and “Frame Inside a Frame [In the underworld].” Daniel is the author of two poetry books: Spit , published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize ; and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and l...

Poet Michael M. Feinstein reads "Gender Clinic," "On Devotion," and "Recognition." Michael M. Weinstein is a poet, essayist, and literary scholar. He is the author of Saint Consequence (Alice James Books, 2025) as well as articles and poems that have appeared in venues like The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books , and elsewhere. Michael holds a Ph. D. fro...

Bloomington-based poet Tony Brewer reads from his manuscript Musical Chairs in the Dark : “Wash My Feet,” “Electors,” “Big Red Jupiter Storm Spot,” and “Forever Home.”

Novelist, memoirist, and poet, Joseph Di Prisco published his fourth book of poetry, My Last Resume: New & Collected Poems in 2023. His work has appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest, Bear Star Press, and Bread Loaf.  Joe champions writers, artists, educators, and students through his decades of teaching and his involvement...

“As a child, I unexpectedly became aware of lying in a bed located in a city located on the Earth located in the World.” - Clarice Lispector Kourtney Jones is a poet, teacher, and interdisciplinary artist from Fort Wayne, Indiana. She can be found typing in public spaces from a typewriter with her performance poetry project known as The Poem Market .  She is the author of the poetry chapbook The M...

Bloomington-based poet Eric Rensberger reads “Reading,” “A Diety,” and “Historical Imagination.” Eric is originally from Elkhart County in northern Indiana, but he has lived in southern Indiana, mainly in Bloomington, since 1974.  His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.  His chapbooks include, amongst other titles, Letters, Standing Where Something Did, and Blank of Blank...

“The poem is a form of negotiation with what haunts us or to put it another way is the interior dialogue we have with our other selves and so far as what haunts us is in part who we are.” -- Carl Phillips Joseph Kerschbaum’s most recent publications include Mirror Box published in 2020 by Main St Rag Press and Distant Shores of a Split Second published in 2018 by Louisiana Literature Press. His wo...

Zilia Balkansky-Sellés is a Bloomington, Indiana-based writer and actor. She was published in Comparative Woman (Louisiana State University). She has a poem included in Trigger Warnings , edited by Joan Hawkins and Kalynn Brower, two poems included in Stormwash: Environmental Poems , edited by Hiromi Yoshida, and in the 2023 Ryder Magazine Poetry Edition .  The play she co-wrote with Wild Swan The...

Poet Daniel Lassell reads “Frame [in the underworld],” “The Glassmaker’s Bench,” “Edge Markers,” “Frame [in the underworld],” and “Frame Inside a Frame.” Daniel is the author of two poetry books: Spit , published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize ; and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and live...

Poet Michael M. Feinstein reads sections I, VII, X, and XVL from his poem "Brother." Michael is a poet, essayist, and literary scholar. He is the author of Saint Consequence (Alice James Books, 2025) as well as articles and poems that have appeared in venues like The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Michael holds a Ph. D. from Harvard an...

Poet Tony Brewer reads pieces from various Poetry on Demand events between 2023-2025: "Life Lines," "Electric Dreams of Acoustic Souls," "Ode to My Immune System," "Fear and Loathing at the Circus;" "Rust Can't Sleep;" and the haiku "His Crooked Smile." Tony is a poet and audio artist from Bloomington, Indiana. He has published 13 books and chapbooks, most recently Water Witch from Pure Sleeze Pre...

Dr. Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, and mother of two who writes about love, loss, grief, and survival. She is the award-winning multi-genre author of five books, including Phantom Limbs , a poetry collection from Finishing Line Press; as well as her memoir, Find a Place for Me ; a short story collection, The Grief Eater ; a chapbook of poetry, Have Love ; and a reference book, Critical Companion...

Born and raised in Chicago, Janine Harrison is the author of Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago, Weight of Silence , and If We Were Birds . Her work has appeared in Veils, Halos, Not Like the Rest of Us, Gyroscope Review, and "Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women."  Janine lives in Highland, Indiana, and is a former Highland Poet Laureate. She joined us from h...

Daniel Lassell is the author of two poetry books: Spit , published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Daniel reads “Museum of Exits,” “Nowhere for Safety,” “Frame [beyond these hills a river],” “Mirror,” and “Trodden Canva...

Michael M. Weinstein reads "Addendum to the Book of Marvels and Travel" and "The Civil Surgeon." Michael is a poet, essayist, and literary scholar. He is the author of Saint Consequence (Alice James Books, 2025) as well as articles and poems that have appeared in venues like The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books , and elsewhere. Michael holds a Ph. D. fr...